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Pres. Duterte “safe, in good health”; 45 PSG men who tested positive mostly assigned in Palace gates, says PSG chief (Eagle News) – Malacanang cancelled the scheduled “Talk to the Nation” of President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday night, April 7, amid reports that at least 45 members of the Presidential Security Group (PSG) had tested positive for COVID-19. “The Palace confirms that President Rodrigo Roa Duterte will not have a Talk to the People […]
Concerns arise as Lorenzana was in IATF meeting with Pres. Duterte just last week (Eagle News) – Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said he had tested positive for COVID-19. Lorenzana, 72, in a statement, said that he received his test results on Tuesday, April 6, that showed he was positive for the virus, and would thus be “undergoing isolation” to avoid infecting other people. “The result of my RT-PCR test today, 06 April 2021, came […]
(Eagle News) – The private sector should still enter into a tripartite agreement with the Philippine government to purchase vaccines against COVID-19, according to Malacanang on Tuesday, March 30, clarifying President Rodrigo Duterte’s directive on the issue. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said that vaccines are still covered by emergency use authorization (EUA) and has no approval for commercial use. “Lilinawin ko lang po ‘no: Ang pag-aangkat po ay sa pamamagitan pa rin ng tripartite […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte said he is allowing the private sector to import vaccines against COVID-19 to protect their employees or members of their work force. In his Talk to the Nation on Monday night, March 29, President Duterte said that he is directing his officials, particularly vaccine czar Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr., to immediately work on this so that private sector can import the COVID-19 vaccines that they need. “We are […]
DBM says P22.9-B funding came from various Bureau of Treasury certified sources (Eagle News) – At least 22.9 million individuals affected by the “lockdown” measures under the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) protocol in Metro Manila, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal will be given assistance in kind to ease their difficulties at this critical stage of the pandemic. This was after President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Supplemental Amelioration Program (SAP) proposed by the Department of […]
(Eagle News) – More areas are placed under community quarantine protocols with restrictions in the country as the number of single-day cases added to the country had breached 10,000. President Rodrigo Duterte announced that while the Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) protocol is to prevail over Metro Manila or the National Capital Region and the provinces of Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna and Rizal until April 4, it is still “subject to further review.” He also announced […]
Total vaccine doses already in the PHL now at more than 2.5 million (Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday, March 29, welcomed the arrival of another batch of 1 million Sinovac doses under the brand name Coronavac that brought the total number of the Chinese-made jabs delivered to the country at 2 million. The vaccines arrived a month after the delivery of the first shipment of Sinovac doses that were donated by the […]
IATF studying if 1-week ECQ enough to bring numbers down (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte will be announcing in his Talk to the Nation Monday night, March 29, what will be the community protocols for the month of April as the Inter-Agency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) hold meetings studying the next moves that should be undertaken to arrest the COVID-19 spike. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque also cited projections on COVID-19 cases […]
Palace officials send greetings of good health, more years to Chief Executive (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte once again is marking his birthday amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, Sunday, March 28, the Philippine leader turns 76. Last year, he spent his special day inside the Palace, away from his family. This time, Malacanang said that the President would celebrate his birthday in Davao City and that he would return to Manila on Monday […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte signed into law on Friday, March 26, the proposed Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises (CREATE) Act which lowered the corporate income tax rate to 25 percent in hopes of attracting more investments amid the still raging COVID-19 pandemic. Republic Act (RA) 11534 or the CREATE Act introduces reforms to the corporate income tax and incentives systems. Aside from cutting the corporate income tax rate to 25 […]
DOH: 1.5M vaccine supply so far delivered not enough to cover all medical frontliners (Eagle News) – The Philippines has vaccinated more than half a million health care workers, or more than 41 percent of the 1.7 million medical frontliners targeted as A1 priority in the country’s vaccine rollout against COVID-19. The rollout started on March 1. President Rodrigo Duterte stressed the importance of vaccinating all health care workers first before giving shots to […]
Makes appeal to follow priority list so as not to imperil COVAX Facility vaccine deliveries (Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte expressed dismay about some persons who are not health workers who got vaccines against COVID-19, which was against the protocol of the Philippine vaccine rollout. Duterte said that this incidents could put in peril the arrival of more vaccines from the World Health Organization’s (WHO) COVAX Facility since the condition to vaccinate health […]
